The Chicago Legal News -(owned by Myra Bradwell, who passed the Illinois bar exam in 1869 but was refused call by the Illinois court) wrote this of Charlotte Ray:

"Miss Ray ... although a lawyer of decided ability, on account of prejudice was not able to obtain sufficient business and had to give up ... active practise."

There is apparently only one pleading in her name - a family law case (Gadley v Gadley).

She returned to New York City and to a teaching career in Brooklyn. She died in 1911 having only sparingly been able to represent a client in the walls of a courtroom.

But her legacy left open the door for both black and female candidates; and not just in the USA, but around the world as increasingly, these two groups were revealing the empty and asine objections to their status. Her place is assured in any law hall of fame along with other women such as Deborah, Margaret Brent and Belva Lockwood.

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Duhaime Lawisms

John Bunyan hath devilishly and perniciously abstained from coming to church to hear Divine service, and is a common upholder of several unlawful meetings and conventicles, to the disturbance and distraction of the good subjects of this kingdom, contrary to the laws of our sovereign lord the King.
Indictment, John Bunyan (1628-1688), author of Pilgrim's Progress, imprisoned from 1661 to 1672.

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